Zelenskyy: On the anniversary of Chornobyl, Russia launched 3 missiles over 3 nuclear power plants

KATERYNA TYSCHENKO - TUESDAY, 26 APRIL 2022, 22:20 

On the anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster, three Russian missiles flew over three Ukrainian nuclear power plants.

Source: a video by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Quote: "Russians should have talked about the catastrophe [Chornobyl - ed.] in schools. Russia should have reminded people of it every year on 26 April, as the entire civilised world does.

Instead, today they launched three missiles against Ukraine so that they flew directly over the blocks of our nuclear power plants. Three nuclear power plants at once: Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi, and the South Ukraine nuclear power plants.

What is it? Are they threatening? Are they scoping it out? [I have] simply no words".

 Details: Zelenskyy also said that Russians "do not realise what Chornobyl is, they absolutely do not".

"Russian troops trying to attack Kyiv through the Chornobyl zone used this exclusion zone as a military bridgehead. They set up positions on the land where it is forbidden even to stand. They drove armoured vehicles across the area where radiation-contaminated materials are buried and where the level of radioactive particles is off the scale. They destroyed dosimetry checkpoints, broke down and looted the radiation monitoring system at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, and looted a nuclear analytical laboratory. They even stole contaminated items confiscated from violators of the exclusion zone rules", the president said.

According to Zelenskyy, it was only thanks to the professionalism and honesty of Ukrainian specialists working at the Chornobyl station and other facilities in the Chornobyl zone that it was possible to save Ukraine and Europe from a new catastrophe.

Zelenskyy also mentioned the fire that broke out on the night of 4 March as a result of Russia's actions at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

"If the world had not woken up that night, we would not have mentioned Chornobyl today, because all thoughts would be about what Russia has done at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant", he said.

 Previously: According to Energoatom, on the morning of 26 April, two Russian cruise missiles flew at low altitudes over the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant towards Zaporizhzhia, thereby posing a threat to the nuclear security of Ukraine and the world.

On 25 April, Energoatom reported that two Russian cruise missiles had flown over the Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant.